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The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 5, No. 26 (June 24, 1916)

06-24-1916 1

VOL.5
SWIMMING CHAMP
4-/I'll-
Goodyearite Claims City
Title in Aquatic Sports
Goodyear possesses a real live celeb-rity
in the person of Joe Henry, Akron
amateur swimming champion, who is
now working in Department 6C.
Henry is an Akronite, born and
bred, and has lived a good, big part
of his life in the water. He has been
swimmiog ever since he can remem-ber.
Someone along about .the time
he was getting old enough to suck his
thumb, took him out into the water and
let him go-sink or swim. Henry must
have swam-at any rate, he didn't
sink-and ever since he has engaged
in the gentle pastime of 4 4 copping" all
the races, dives and under-water swim-ming
matches that are pulled off around
Akron.
And Henry has the goods to prove
it, too. He just " dotes" on medals,
and a mere fraction of what he has
won suffices to make him look like the
headlight of an engine or a front ele-vation
of a Spanish Grandee. Three
of the five medals Henry is wearing
in the picture are trophies of the
Fourth of July mee* of 1914, at Sil-ver
Lake, at ' which time he broke all
local • records -niid-won the city * cham-pionship.
The other two inedals were
won in swimming matches.at the Y. '
M. C. A. pool for the best all-around
swimmer.
The hundred-yard swim in one-minute
fiat is one of the many local
records which Henry holds. He has
made the fifty-yard swim in thirty-two
seconds and the twenty-ilve-yard
swim in thirteen seconds. His under-water
record is 120 feet, traveling
three times the length of the Y. M.
C. A. pool. In distance work he has
swam many of the local lakes and res-ervoirs,
his record being from end to
end and return of the Big Reservoir.
The distance is nearly three miles, and
his time for the feat was about an
hour and a half. Henry also does all
manner of plain and fancy diving. He
has mnde dives of heights up to forty
and fifty feet, and can make a turn
and a half in the air.
As might be supposed, Henry is an
ardent champion of swimming as a
recreation, exercise and for the ,general 1
sport. He is night swimming instruc- 1
tor at the 6 6Y," and has instilled the I
love of aquatic sports into many local
swimmers. He flrmly believes that
every one should learn the art, and crit-iclses
the permitting of non-swimmers •
to handle canoes as one cause of the
many drownings which Akron has each .
Heason.
4 c The great trouble with the ordinary
man in the water," according to
- E[6nry, is that ·while he can paddle
around, he don't know how to swim
properly; how to swim so as to get the
greatest bene•t in sport and exercise.
Breathing properly, he insists, is a fun.
damental. The head should be kept
under water, the nose and face only
being brought out on the stroke by
twisting the head on one side, seize a
breach of air and then exhale it when
Z the head is again under water. An-other
common. fault is to take things
too rapidly at flrst, to swim fast for
a short distance and then become ex-h
nuRted. The whole thing should be
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AKRON, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916
JOE HENRY. AMATEUR CITY
CHAMPION.
gone at moderately and slowly. Then,
too, Mr. Henry thinks that swimmers
should venture into deep water mofe.
This develops endurance and reliance,
and helps to obtain the proper strokes.
Service Pins Recaired
A lot of fifty new ft*e-year service
pins was received on Wednesday of
this week, and those who have quali
lied for them may obtain one by calling
on L. J. Swanson of the Factory Li-brary.
In the couple of weeks since
the supply ran out, a list of about
twenty persons qualified has accumu-lated.
The bee is a saver and lives on honey.
. .1
Books for Home Sway
Several requests have been made re-cently
by alien-born Goodyearites,
who for various reasons have been un-able
to attend the Goodyear Citizen-ship
classes, for books to study in
order to pass their examinations for
citizenship papers.
The Factory School recommends for
this purpose the book on Civil Govern-ment
and the American Citizenship by
Beard, published by the McMillen Co.
of New York, and the pamphlet, Primer
of Citizenship, issued by the Society
of Colonial Dames of Ill., either of
which can be secured through any
book dealer. Inquiry at the Akron
Public Library will bring to light other
books on Civil Government which will
be of value.
However, aliens will progress more
rapidly and be more sure of passing
their examinations if they are drilled
in the classes held by either the Good-year
or the Y. M. C. A. There are
many difficulties in the way of self-study.
If it really is impossible to join
one of these classes, it would be a
good idea to talk with Mr. A. W. Long
• of the Factory School who can give
personal advice upon the work needed
and· which is within your capability:
A-li .- -Special Meeting
To the Officers and Members of
the Goodyear Relief Associa-tion:
Notice is liereby given that a
special meeting of the members
of the Goodyear Belief Associa-tion
will be held in the Factory
Lunch Room of The Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co., Akron Ohio,
on Tuesday the 27th day of June,
1916, at 2:30 o'clock for the pur-pose
of considering and taking
final action on the resignation of
• Mr. P. W. Litchfield as trustee of
said Association, and election of
a successor, if necessary.
H. H. Garman, Pres.
A B. Cunnington, Sec'y.
I.
No. 26
GET MORE TRAINS
Committee Disposes of
Six Thousand Tickets
Three more sections have been added
to the Cedar Point Excursion train by
the railroad. company at the behest of
the Relief Association Picnic Commiti
tee, providing accommodations for a
total crowd .of 7,800 persons. Thurs-day
evening all tickets remaining aver
from th6 factory sale were retutned
to the Union Depot, wherethey may
now be purchased. A total of 6,400
tickets were sold up till Thursday noon.
Do not forget the train times. The
first section pulls out for Sandusky. at
5:30 0'clock in the morning, and the
others will follow at ten-minute inter-vals
until 8 o'clock. Returning in the
evening, the first section will leave
Sandusky at 7 o'clock, and the others
will follow at short intervals until 9
o'clock, the time at which the last train
will leave. No tickets will be soId on
the trains.
Tomorrow morning, as· the sun rises
over the eastern honzon, the great exo-dlls
will begin. From every corner of
' the city, Mr. and Mrs. Goodyearite,
-=r, with all the little · but important· Good-yearites,
will turn their footsteps to-wards
the· Union Depot as to a Meccazi
Father in his new panama hat, his
' • boiled shirt and white • collar, his ]rel-low
shoes, which later in the day will
have the t6rtures of the Inquisition
faded to a frazzle-Mother dressed up
in her best, new awning-stripe organdie,
drawn painfully in at the waist .to a
semblance of the shape which recently
appeared on that immodestly-clad
Circe. in the Humming Hive Depart-ment
Store's show-window--Our· Meno
Model No. 6 for slightly stout ladies,
Special $1.39. In and out around them
Johnnie and Lucy and Mabel skip ·ec-statically,
pausing the while, as butter-flies
in flight, to poke a furtive finger
into the delightfully mysterious depths
of the white, napkin-covered basket
which promises such a feast of good
things to· come---had they not seent and
- smelled the preparation of that basket
for hours--dayal
-- They know the whole contents of that
basket by heart.
And there away in the rear comes
I big sister Lill and her new c 4 beau"
who works in Dept. 5A-1. Of course,
Lill had to stop to put another dab of
powder on the freckles which cross
her nose, and .make them all late. But
at last the station is reached and after
a brief tussle in the crowd, seats are
obtained and they start whirling on the
journey to the Point. .
And then the fun at the Point! A
tramp through the grounds while
Mother and Li11 fix dinner. A short
rest and then a dip in the surf. John-nie
grabs Sister Lill by the ankle and
pulls her under. 4 4 Now, see what you
have done, you .naughty boyl. My hair
is soaking wet. and I won't be able
to comb it for weeks! '25 Rides on the
roller-coaster, ' the racer, the carousal,
and a look-see at the dance hall.
At last the day is over. Back they
pile on .the boat and make a ' quick
trip across the bay in the evening twi-light.
Another ride on the traiii, and
Mr. and Mrs. Goodyeavite and the fam-ily
are home again, tired and content
-till next year.
i-...
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the country fqr the benefit of its citizens.
HOW TO MAIL YOUR LETTERS
POSTAGE:
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VAI.UABLES:
Register 811 mail that contains valuables or is valuable in itself.
The cost is ten cents in addition to the regular postage. Registration in-sures
safe delivery.
SENDING MONEY:
To send money within the United States, use the Domestic Postal
Money Order. Secure an appUcation blank and full directions at your
post omce. The cost varies with the amount.
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Packages up to fifty pounds in weight may be sent through the post
oace. The rate varies with the weight and distance. Take the package
to the post olice, have it weighed and the correct postage placed upon it.
The packages must contain the names and addresses of the person who
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This publication is protected by copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). Copyright to this publication lies with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, which has permitted The University of Akron to make it available for personal use for private study, scholarship, or research. Any other use of this item including publications, exhibitions, or productions is prohibited without written permission. Please contact Archival Services at archives@uakron.edu for more information.

VOL.5
SWIMMING CHAMP
4-/I'll-
Goodyearite Claims City
Title in Aquatic Sports
Goodyear possesses a real live celeb-rity
in the person of Joe Henry, Akron
amateur swimming champion, who is
now working in Department 6C.
Henry is an Akronite, born and
bred, and has lived a good, big part
of his life in the water. He has been
swimmiog ever since he can remem-ber.
Someone along about .the time
he was getting old enough to suck his
thumb, took him out into the water and
let him go-sink or swim. Henry must
have swam-at any rate, he didn't
sink-and ever since he has engaged
in the gentle pastime of 4 4 copping" all
the races, dives and under-water swim-ming
matches that are pulled off around
Akron.
And Henry has the goods to prove
it, too. He just " dotes" on medals,
and a mere fraction of what he has
won suffices to make him look like the
headlight of an engine or a front ele-vation
of a Spanish Grandee. Three
of the five medals Henry is wearing
in the picture are trophies of the
Fourth of July mee* of 1914, at Sil-ver
Lake, at ' which time he broke all
local • records -niid-won the city * cham-pionship.
The other two inedals were
won in swimming matches.at the Y. '
M. C. A. pool for the best all-around
swimmer.
The hundred-yard swim in one-minute
fiat is one of the many local
records which Henry holds. He has
made the fifty-yard swim in thirty-two
seconds and the twenty-ilve-yard
swim in thirteen seconds. His under-water
record is 120 feet, traveling
three times the length of the Y. M.
C. A. pool. In distance work he has
swam many of the local lakes and res-ervoirs,
his record being from end to
end and return of the Big Reservoir.
The distance is nearly three miles, and
his time for the feat was about an
hour and a half. Henry also does all
manner of plain and fancy diving. He
has mnde dives of heights up to forty
and fifty feet, and can make a turn
and a half in the air.
As might be supposed, Henry is an
ardent champion of swimming as a
recreation, exercise and for the ,general 1
sport. He is night swimming instruc- 1
tor at the 6 6Y," and has instilled the I
love of aquatic sports into many local
swimmers. He flrmly believes that
every one should learn the art, and crit-iclses
the permitting of non-swimmers •
to handle canoes as one cause of the
many drownings which Akron has each .
Heason.
4 c The great trouble with the ordinary
man in the water," according to
- E[6nry, is that ·while he can paddle
around, he don't know how to swim
properly; how to swim so as to get the
greatest bene•t in sport and exercise.
Breathing properly, he insists, is a fun.
damental. The head should be kept
under water, the nose and face only
being brought out on the stroke by
twisting the head on one side, seize a
breach of air and then exhale it when
Z the head is again under water. An-other
common. fault is to take things
too rapidly at flrst, to swim fast for
a short distance and then become ex-h
nuRted. The whole thing should be
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GTC, « 004 YEAR
Illill villbill'Il'LITTilliT 404+0000•••000000/0
AKRON, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916
JOE HENRY. AMATEUR CITY
CHAMPION.
gone at moderately and slowly. Then,
too, Mr. Henry thinks that swimmers
should venture into deep water mofe.
This develops endurance and reliance,
and helps to obtain the proper strokes.
Service Pins Recaired
A lot of fifty new ft*e-year service
pins was received on Wednesday of
this week, and those who have quali
lied for them may obtain one by calling
on L. J. Swanson of the Factory Li-brary.
In the couple of weeks since
the supply ran out, a list of about
twenty persons qualified has accumu-lated.
The bee is a saver and lives on honey.
. .1
Books for Home Sway
Several requests have been made re-cently
by alien-born Goodyearites,
who for various reasons have been un-able
to attend the Goodyear Citizen-ship
classes, for books to study in
order to pass their examinations for
citizenship papers.
The Factory School recommends for
this purpose the book on Civil Govern-ment
and the American Citizenship by
Beard, published by the McMillen Co.
of New York, and the pamphlet, Primer
of Citizenship, issued by the Society
of Colonial Dames of Ill., either of
which can be secured through any
book dealer. Inquiry at the Akron
Public Library will bring to light other
books on Civil Government which will
be of value.
However, aliens will progress more
rapidly and be more sure of passing
their examinations if they are drilled
in the classes held by either the Good-year
or the Y. M. C. A. There are
many difficulties in the way of self-study.
If it really is impossible to join
one of these classes, it would be a
good idea to talk with Mr. A. W. Long
• of the Factory School who can give
personal advice upon the work needed
and· which is within your capability:
A-li .- -Special Meeting
To the Officers and Members of
the Goodyear Relief Associa-tion:
Notice is liereby given that a
special meeting of the members
of the Goodyear Belief Associa-tion
will be held in the Factory
Lunch Room of The Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co., Akron Ohio,
on Tuesday the 27th day of June,
1916, at 2:30 o'clock for the pur-pose
of considering and taking
final action on the resignation of
• Mr. P. W. Litchfield as trustee of
said Association, and election of
a successor, if necessary.
H. H. Garman, Pres.
A B. Cunnington, Sec'y.
I.
No. 26
GET MORE TRAINS
Committee Disposes of
Six Thousand Tickets
Three more sections have been added
to the Cedar Point Excursion train by
the railroad. company at the behest of
the Relief Association Picnic Commiti
tee, providing accommodations for a
total crowd .of 7,800 persons. Thurs-day
evening all tickets remaining aver
from th6 factory sale were retutned
to the Union Depot, wherethey may
now be purchased. A total of 6,400
tickets were sold up till Thursday noon.
Do not forget the train times. The
first section pulls out for Sandusky. at
5:30 0'clock in the morning, and the
others will follow at ten-minute inter-vals
until 8 o'clock. Returning in the
evening, the first section will leave
Sandusky at 7 o'clock, and the others
will follow at short intervals until 9
o'clock, the time at which the last train
will leave. No tickets will be soId on
the trains.
Tomorrow morning, as· the sun rises
over the eastern honzon, the great exo-dlls
will begin. From every corner of
' the city, Mr. and Mrs. Goodyearite,
-=r, with all the little · but important· Good-yearites,
will turn their footsteps to-wards
the· Union Depot as to a Meccazi
Father in his new panama hat, his
' • boiled shirt and white • collar, his ]rel-low
shoes, which later in the day will
have the t6rtures of the Inquisition
faded to a frazzle-Mother dressed up
in her best, new awning-stripe organdie,
drawn painfully in at the waist .to a
semblance of the shape which recently
appeared on that immodestly-clad
Circe. in the Humming Hive Depart-ment
Store's show-window--Our· Meno
Model No. 6 for slightly stout ladies,
Special $1.39. In and out around them
Johnnie and Lucy and Mabel skip ·ec-statically,
pausing the while, as butter-flies
in flight, to poke a furtive finger
into the delightfully mysterious depths
of the white, napkin-covered basket
which promises such a feast of good
things to· come---had they not seent and
- smelled the preparation of that basket
for hours--dayal
-- They know the whole contents of that
basket by heart.
And there away in the rear comes
I big sister Lill and her new c 4 beau"
who works in Dept. 5A-1. Of course,
Lill had to stop to put another dab of
powder on the freckles which cross
her nose, and .make them all late. But
at last the station is reached and after
a brief tussle in the crowd, seats are
obtained and they start whirling on the
journey to the Point. .
And then the fun at the Point! A
tramp through the grounds while
Mother and Li11 fix dinner. A short
rest and then a dip in the surf. John-nie
grabs Sister Lill by the ankle and
pulls her under. 4 4 Now, see what you
have done, you .naughty boyl. My hair
is soaking wet. and I won't be able
to comb it for weeks! '25 Rides on the
roller-coaster, ' the racer, the carousal,
and a look-see at the dance hall.
At last the day is over. Back they
pile on .the boat and make a ' quick
trip across the bay in the evening twi-light.
Another ride on the traiii, and
Mr. and Mrs. Goodyeavite and the fam-ily
are home again, tired and content
-till next year.
i-...
Postal Information for Alien-Born
The United. States owns and operates 5,800 post offices thrrughout
the country fqr the benefit of its citizens.
HOW TO MAIL YOUR LETTERS
POSTAGE:
Be sure that the amount of your postage is correct. If IA doubt,
have the man at the stamp window weigh it. Place stamps on the upper
right-hand corner of the letter or package. A list of postal rates is
given at every post omce.
VAI.UABLES:
Register 811 mail that contains valuables or is valuable in itself.
The cost is ten cents in addition to the regular postage. Registration in-sures
safe delivery.
SENDING MONEY:
To send money within the United States, use the Domestic Postal
Money Order. Secure an appUcation blank and full directions at your
post omce. The cost varies with the amount.
PARCELS POST:
Packages up to fifty pounds in weight may be sent through the post
oace. The rate varies with the weight and distance. Take the package
to the post olice, have it weighed and the correct postage placed upon it.
The packages must contain the names and addresses of the person who
sends it and the person to whom it ts to be Bent
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